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Poor Stephen Miller. On January 25 he finally got to
present his full anti-immigrant program as the nonnegotiable position of the U.S. executive branch—and suddenly his spot in the limelight was stolen by a New
York Times report that yes, Donald Trump really had tried to fire Special
Counsel Robert Mueller. People like Miller love the word “illegal,” at least
when applied to people with dark skin. They fail to notice the irony that they
are working for a man whose whole career has been based on breaking or
circumventing laws—a career that started with violations of anti-discrimination
laws and may end with an effort to get around the special counsel statute. So
if 11 million people should be deported for “unlawful presence” in the U.S.,
what should we do about Donald Trump’s unlawful presence in the White
House?—TPOI editor
The immigration deal Trump’s White House is floating,
explained
1.8 million immigrants could ultimately get access to
citizenship — but the White House wants big cuts to family-based immigration in
return.
By Dara Lind, Vox
January 25, 2018
The Trump administration is finally playing ball on immigration.
On Wednesday, it announced it would release a “framework”
for a bill it hoped to see pass Congress. On Thursday, details of that
framework leaked to several news outlets, including NBC and the Daily Beast.
Those reports say that the administration is willing to
allow 1.8 million unauthorized immigrants who came to the country as children
to become legal residents and ultimately apply for US citizenship — including
the 690,000 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program, as well as others who would have been eligible for DACA but did not
apply — in exchange for a $25 billion fund for its wall on the US/Mexico
border; reallocating slots currently given to immigrants via the diversity visa
lottery on the basis of “merit”; and preventing people from sponsoring their
parents, adult children, or siblings to immigrate to the US.[…]
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Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House
Counsel Threatened to Quit
By Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, New York
Times
January 25, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the firing last June of
Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation,
according to four people told of the matter, but ultimately backed down after
the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the
directive.
The West Wing confrontation marks the first time Mr. Trump
is known to have tried to fire the special counsel. Mr. Mueller learned about
the episode in recent months as his investigators interviewed current and
former senior White House officials in his inquiry into whether the president
obstructed justice.[…]
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